Santa Monica, CA: On Thursday, April 8th approximately at 8:00 in the evening, multiple 911 callers reported hearing one single shot fired in the area of 12th st and Michigan Ave. upon the arrival of first responding police units, they began to investigate the area for the gunshot, the officers discovered that a male subject walked out of their apartment building and shot one gunshot into a neighboring apartment building before returning to their apartment and barricading inside with the gun and their dog. The Santa Monica Police Department located the subject’s residence after talking to several witnesses and attempted to get the subject out on their own, when the subject refused to come out, a swat call was initiated and the crisis negotiation team was called out to convince the subject to come out of the residence. At one point officers at the scene did indicate over the radio that a shot was fired, this is unconfirmed and there was no sound of a gunshot being fired near the residency. At 9:40 the suspect surrendered to officers, when being searched by officers the subject started to resist the officer that was searching him, when the subject was being placed into the back of a police vehicle, they also resisted prompting more officers to have to be on the subject. The subject was also heard screaming “boomba“ multiple times while being placed into the back of a patrol car, prompting officers to send in a bomb sniffing K-9 into the residency as a precaution while they cleared the residency.
After officers completed their search of the residence, they located the dog that was inside of the residence and took it to a local animal shelter while the subject or a relative to the subject can pickup the dog if the dog isn’t picked up within a specific time frame, it will go up for adoption. The officers also located the handgun used in the crime that led up to the turn of events that evening and was booked for evidence. Officers were also canvassing the area for shell casings and other evidence that could be connected to the shooting that occurred.
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